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Islamabad maintains that J&K is a disputed territory and India’s proposed law makes Pakistan have “serious concerns”.

Lodhi complains that the UN and the international community is not taking note of India’s action and urged them to “honour” their commitment to the “independent and impartial plebiscite” of J&K.

Trying to paint India’s internal matter as an international one, Lodhi accuses India of using “force as a state policy” resulting in “blatant violations of international law as well as human rights abuses of the Kashmiri people”.

On May 17, India had strongly objected to Pakistan’s intervention in an “entirely internal legislative matter”.

“The Government firmly rejects Pakistan’s repeated and increasing attempts to impose on the international community matters that India has always been open to address bilaterally with Pakistan,” Vikas Swarup, India’s External Affairs Spokesperson had said at the time. With the Geospatial Information Regulation Bill 2016, India will make it mandatory for all to obtain a license to retain or depict any map of India. Chapter V of the bill states the penalty for wrong depiction of India’s map: “Whoever depicts, disseminates, publishes or distributes any wrong or false topographic information of India including international boundaries in contravention of section 6, shall be punished with a fine ranging from Rupees ten lac to Rupees one hundred crore and/or imprisonment for a period upto seven years.”